Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill

Play nice!

I shall undertake to play nicely with the entire House today, because there are some really impor...

I do not want to delay the Bill; I want us to get through the business with all speed. It was for...

There are a number of important points I would like to make with particular reference to the amen...

My hon. Friend will acknowledge, of course, that the requirement for review and consultation is n...

This is a subject on which we conduct long conversations, reviews and consultation across Governm...

Will the Minister accept that it is not just about how; it is also about when? Given that there i...

It is about how and we are proceeding. We are determined to do it. The hon. Gentleman is right to...

When does the Minister think the Government will be in a position to understand the scope of legi...

I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Minister for Women and Equalities is best placed to make ...

The Minister speaks in riddles. Is she saying that the Government are not actively supporting my ...

I think I made it clear that we are not actively supporting my hon. Friend’s amendments, but he h...

I take it from that that, because of the forces lined up against the Government, they are throwin...

I will be very brief. I just want to explain to the Minister why I feel very impatient—she looked...

I said at the beginning of my previous remarks that this morning would be a breeze. There have be...

Since the Government are in the mood to apologise for all sorts of historical events, does my hon...

I am in a generous frame of mind this morning, and rather than their saying sorry, we should be s...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on bringing his Bill to Third Reading. On clause 4, does he agr...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady because she pre-empts my clause 4 moment. The fourth, and very imp...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing this important Bill, which is, in effect, enabling l...

Give my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince) a job—I am sure that will happen shor...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

If my hon. Friend wants to ruin my peroration, I will allow him to do so.

I apologise to my hon. Friend and thank him for giving way. I am in full support of the Bill, but...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that very pithy intervention. He makes some good points, and ...

I would like to start by thanking the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) f...

I intend to speak very briefly—no cheers, please! This is a great Bill, and it is great that the ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on his success in ge...

I rise briefly to add my support to this Bill. It is a fantastic piece of legislation in all resp...

I rise briefly to support the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) and to co...

There are many extremely good things in this Bill, the first being the righting of the wrong, whi...

My hon. Friend is making a case as to why civil partnerships should not be equally available; ind...

I hear my hon. Friend’s argument, but I do not agree with him. During the process of arguing the ...

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I am not sure who to give way to first. I give way to my right hon. Friend.

I appreciate that my hon. Friend is making what is in many respects an intellectual argument, but...

I recognise absolutely that this an incredibly emotional debate, and I want to tread as carefully...

Does my hon. Friend’s argument not surely mean that civil partnerships are a step in the right di...

I hear the argument my hon. Friend makes and I say, “Of course”, but the thing I gently point out...

In a way I am sorry to do this, but as someone who is in a civil partnership, I really want to st...

I am always grateful to take interventions from the hon. Gentleman, who is so thoughtful on all t...

One difference between the two is that people do not have to have a big ceremony. We did, though—...

I am genuinely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful intervention. It has been brilli...

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Here comes another, more powerful one.

A moment ago, my hon. Friend asked why we need to have civil partnerships when marriage exists an...

I almost always agree with my hon. Friend about almost all things, but on this issue we find ours...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Neil O'Brien), even though w...

I rise to add my warm congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp). This Bill a...

Even if you say so yourself.

And mine. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comment.

In relation to the marriage component...

I support wholeheartedly the contents of the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Eas...

I thank my hon. Friend that intervention, and I am sure that the whole House will join me in cong...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland (Trudy Harrison).

I thank...

On this very sensitive subject, does my hon. Friend agree that if a baby has to be induced very e...

Yes is the honest answer, and I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I have now met many b...

As my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) has described the Bill...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On Wednesday I raised with the Prime Minister the police ...

In fairness, the hon. Lady has corrected the record by what she has just said, so I think that pa...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it in order to ask for a Government stateme...

The Chair has not been given notice of any forthcoming statement, but I think the request will ha...